{"id":468840,"date":"2026-05-27T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468840\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:50:09","slug":"china-industrial-profits-jump-24-7-in-april-fastest-gain-in-over-two-years-despite-headwinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468840\/","title":{"rendered":"China industrial profits jump 24.7% in April, fastest gain in over two years despite headwinds"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEIJING \u2014 China’s industrial profits in April surged by 24.7% from a year earlier, according to official data released Wednesday, marking the fastest growth since November 2023.<\/p>\n

The increase accelerated from a 15.8% rise in March<\/a>, according to China’s biggest financial data provider Wind Information.<\/p>\n

For the first four months of the year, enterprise profits rose 18.2%<\/a>, up from 15.5% growth in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

China reported slower economic growth in April<\/a>, with a 4.1% increase in industrial output and a 0.2% rise in retail sales from a year ago. Fixed asset investment fell for the first four months of the year as the real estate drag steepened.<\/p>\n

Exports remained strong<\/a>, climbing 14.1% in April from a year ago in U.S. dollar terms. Imports surged by 25.3%<\/a>, data released earlier in May showed.<\/p>\n

The producer price index in April jumped 2.8% from a year ago, the most since July 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING \u2014 China’s industrial profits in April surged by 24.7% from a year earlier, according to official data…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2102,2476,11237,72,122,114,3389,113,61,60,22777,123,965],"class_list":["post-468840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beijing","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-asia","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-china","tag-economic-events","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-market-insider","tag-markets","tag-stock-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}